Word: taken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, the council has mobilized with heightened intensity behind this perennial student cause, and while there is no reason to believe that this latest push will necessarily result in any greater success then past efforts, we are heartened by the zeal with which the council's new leadership has taken up the crusade. It goes without saying that this campus sorely needs a student center. Only 72 of 241 student groups have offices, and most of those "offices" might more accurately be described as cramped cubicles. They are too small to host meetings and the decentralized nature of classroom scheduling...
...Jerusalem, a girl who has survived the internment camps of Sarajevo, appears mysteriously at the door of a convent. Quickly taken in by the nuns and the scholars in residence, this girl, Andrea, charms everyone. Her obsession with the show Wheel of Fortune becomes a central theme of the novel. Codrescu's interest focuses on Vanna White, a subject of mass worship who brings meaning to the world by connecting letters into words. References to the game-show throughout the novel bring with them the hope that somehow all the loose ends will eventually be tied...
Lewinsky may have taken the moral high ground by declining to dish about the Bill-Hill relationship, but when it came to her own romps outside the Oval Office, Miss Monica was all giggles. It was nice to see that "that woman" seemed as disillusioned with the president as we are, but Lewinsky didn't look that concerned about her future. "Mommy made a big mistake?" Knitting? Monica, you've now explained phone sex to Barbara Walters. There's no PTA presidency in your future...
...hung like a cashew. The Crimson immediately pulled strings and waxed plaintive to get a one-on-one with the celebrated word-wrestler who delivered such literary punches as The Black Dahlia, American Tabloid and L.A. Confidential. Armed for the interview with nonsense and irreverence, The Crimson was taken aback to find a straight and staid character with answers to defeat over populated extremist myth in which we would like to outfit...
When the problem is finally taken care of, Weinstein proves that he is a veteran performer...